The Perfect Couple by Brenda Novak

Author:Brenda Novak
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: mom 03/21/2014
ISBN: 9780778326670
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2009-08-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

“Are you high?” Tiffany whispered to Colin once they were in the kitchen. They’d finished eating dinner—a painful affair for Tiffany with her husband so attentive to Zoe. Now Zoe was using the bathroom.

He scowled at her. “Of course not. What are you talking about?”

“Don’t lie to me. You’re on drugs. I can tell.” Having Zoe over was a bad idea. Tiffany had been worried about it from the beginning, but now she was getting really worried. She could tell by the way Zoe kept glancing at her that she’d noticed Colin’s altered behavior. She could probably sense his sexual interest, too. He kept leering at her as if he wanted to rip her clothes off. “Is it Ecstasy?” she asked.

“What’s it matter to you?” He set the dishes he’d carried in the sink.

“We were planning to party later. So what if I got a head start?”

“What’d you do?”

“I had one line of coke before I left the office, okay? No big deal.”

“You couldn’t have waited, Colin? We need to be careful around Zoe!”

“I haven’t given us away.”

“But if you keep talking about pets and how smart some of them can be she’s going to think it’s weird, okay? Don’t mention animals again! You’re making her nervous, and me, too.”

He shook his head as if he didn’t believe it. “You’re overreacting.”

“No, I’m not. If you want to have James and Tommy over tonight, and you want me to show them a good time, you’d better hurry up and get this route planning over with so she can be on her way.”

He grabbed her by the waist. “Now you’re threatening me?”

She blinked rapidly, fighting tears. “I won’t go to prison like my brother.”

“Oh, shit. I told you, no one’s going to prison—”

“Be quiet!” Tiffany broke in. “You’re talking too loud. Just get rid of her.”

He let go and folded his arms. “What if I don’t want to get rid of her?

What if I want another pet—a mother-daughter combo?”

Tiffany’s knees went weak. She’d been afraid of this, afraid of where her husband’s mind had been wandering. “We can’t keep her!”

“She won’t be able to escape any easier than Sam. And she’ll be no 166

harder to dispose of when we’re through.”

“She’s not a child. She’ll be cunning, more resourceful, stronger. So it will be different. And who knows how many people she told that she was coming here for dinner?”

“But imagine how she’d react to finding her daughter again. In a way, we’d be doing her a favor.” He laughed, cocking his head as he gazed down at her. “We’d be giving her what she wants.”

And what he wanted at the same time. He couldn’t wait to witness that painful moment when she realized she’d been stabbed in the back by someone she considered a friend.

Tiffany bit her lip. Sometimes he truly frightened her…. “Colin, no—”

“Yes! Then she’ll understand that you and I have an open relationship.

That she doesn’t have to resist her attraction to me,” he argued. “You’re a big stumbling block for her.

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